I have a WordPress/SEO background, but have never implemented these strategies within the blockchain. I would say it's mostly due to economic reasons. When I spend hours to SEO-ify a wordpress post, it will increase my economic benefits, especially in the long-term.
But if I spend hours to SEO-ify a blockchain post idea, the post payout is still the same for me as a content creator. However, my time spent SEO-ifying posts benefits those with massive amounts of HIVE that get gains from onboarding new users.
I think the main problem with this blockchain and SEO-ification is that there are no lures to bring content creators here. You can't simply create good content and engage on the blockchain to get decent post payouts. You also need to command a large amount of HIVE to garner attention.
So, in short, I have talked with fellow content creators from Wordpress and YouTube, and most choose not to blog on the blockchain because time invested vs potential payout is super low. I am still on here because I like a challenge, and I think one day this blockchain will get its act together.
The biggest thing killing SEO at the moment are the hive tags and communities.
The issue is in people having misaligned incentives and over-inflated expectations when coming here.
One can currently not expect to earn hundreds of dollars per post. Not when the price per token is 13 cents.
The economic incentive of posting on hive is currently broken only because $hive is so undervalued, like most other coins during a bear cycle.
A 10$ post now is close to 500$ at a price of 5$ per token and I do expect $hive to reach that valuation and even more, during this imminent bull trend that has seemingly already started.
All of the people that left because of the price decline will turn up once again as the price recovers, mark my words.